ATTENTION: ALL RETAILERS HB 144—TOBACCO TAX MODIFICATIONS Effective April 1, 2009, the cigarette tax will be increased by $0.30. Other
Tobacco Products (OTP) tax will be increased by 7.5%. Snuff tax will be increased by $0.095. This legislative change also establishes an inventory
floor stock tax to properly address all affected products held for sale at the time of the rate increases. All cigarette licensees and retailers will
be required to take a physical inventory as of March 31, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. and file and pay the inventory floor stock tax. Additional information and
returns will be made available prior to the first due date of April 10, 2009. For further assistance with any tobacco tax questions, please contact
the Division of Miscellaneous Taxes at (502) 564-6823 or DOR.WEBResponseExciseTax@ky.gov.

It now cost's 15+$ for 3 packs of Marlboro's.
Smokes that cost me 2 dollars a pack now cost me 3.45$ a pack.

Now lets have the argument/debate.

If smoking causes such a strain on the tax payer's...Via medical bills ect..
As with obesity.

Why not tax sex?
It cost's the tax payer's million's a year.
STD'S
Hiv
All the tax payer's pick up the bill for people who have unprotected sex.
If they are unable to afford med's.

So If your argument is it cost's Tax payers money for smoker's and fat people.
Let's not be a hypocrite TAX SEX now.

Also those car's you drive put of enough toxicant's to collapse your lung instantly if ya put ya mouth to the muffler.
Your are killing my kid's in public.
Raise the tax on automobile user's 95 cent a gallon on gas.
To help pay for the environment and medical care there death bringing car's bring.
From wreck's from uninsured motor's.
That cause disability..then they draw a check for life..off you.
ECT. ECT.

Why do we pick and choose which habit is taxable to the point it's quit /stop eating drinking...to other's.
Every one has it bad point's.

We as American's are being taxed to death .

Obama's low income tax stimulus...HAHAHHAH
We save 8 dollars a pay check.
They raise tobacco up 1.45 a pack .
We lost money.
If you are low income and smoke that is.

Now they are gonna start taxing junk food ect..
More of that BIG 8 dollars a paycheck.

OBAMA you lied to me and the American people.

You promised one thing and flat put a hurting on us lower income people that smoke eat fast food.
Stop letting dumb politician's raise our tax's..and you too mr.obama.

I heard on a news talk radio show here that there was mention of a "Pole Tax." This would tax people that went to strip joints, 5 dollars at the
door to get in. In addition to this raising the tax on beer and alcohol. These types of taxes they are labeling as Sin Taxes.

A sin tax? Wow...that one got me to laugh. How about we tax all those congressmen/woman who 'sin' by telling lies, sin by taking advantage of
people/things, etc. We could make a fortune off them alone!

No taxation without representation" began as a slogan in the period 1763–1776 that summarized a primary grievance of the British colonists in
the Thirteen Colonies. In short, many in those colonies believed the lack of direct representation in the distant British Parliament was an illegal
denial of their rights as Englishmen, and therefore laws taxing the colonists (the kind of law that affects the most individuals directly), and other
laws applying only to the colonies, were unconstitutional. In recent times, it has been used by several other groups in several different countries
over similar disputes.

Myself feel Now more than ever they are no Representing me Nor the average American.

You have it all wrong, they are in place to control and moderate us. You cannot look to them and say they do anything wrong. The proverbial Do as I
say not as I do. Congress operating at 1 billion dollars a day to come up with more ways to take care of the lazy, illegal ( i am sorry
"Undocumented") people of this country at your expense.

I wonder if they truly realize that the poor are the ones most affected by most of these taxes. Yet another way for them to keep people poor. More
people at or below the poverty line are the smokers and drinkers and eat crap food. Trying to eat "healthy" is way more expensive than eating fast
food crap. Unless you grow your own of course.

Originally posted by TheAmused
If smoking causes such a strain on the tax payer's...Via medical bills ect..
As with obesity.

Why not tax sex?
It cost's the tax payer's million's a year.
STD'S
Hiv
All the tax payer's pick up the bill for people who have unprotected sex.
If they are unable to afford med's.

Well, I imagine the medical problems that come from unprotected sex probably pale in comparison to that of smoking cigarettes and our increasingly
fatter citizens, BUT I do understand where you're going with this and to an extent, you've got a point. Realistically speaking, however, having sex
isn't always associated with buying a product like with smoking or eating fast food, so it would be very difficult to tax accurately.

Originally posted by TheAmused
Why do we pick and choose which habit is taxable to the point it's quit /stop eating drinking...to other's.
Every one has it bad point's.

I think some facets of the government just look for ways to bring in additional tax revenue, and others genuinely think they're doing a good job by
taxing things like cigarettes and fast food in the hopes that people will quit using them.

Originally posted by TheAmused
We as American's are being taxed to death.

No, we as minorities are being taxed to death. Cigarette smokers are the minority and nobody really cares if they raise the tax on cigs which is
obvious since my packs just went up to $4.55 from $3.95

They could take a page from Australia, they are taxing for every flush of the toilet there. That could accomplish the same thing. I can't believe
you people still have money. So many ways the government can put there hands in your pocket. So many exciting opportunities to make you pay!! God i
love socialist America!

ASHA. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America: How Many Cases and at What Cost? December 1998. * More than half of all people will
have an STD/STI at some point in their lifetime. [1] * The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral STD/STI is over
65 million. [2] Every year, there are at least 19 million new cases of STDs/STIs, some of which are curable. [2,3] * More than $8 billion
is spent each year to diagnose and treat STDs/STIs and their complications. This figure does not include HIV. [4]

We are so reactionary we fail to see the flip side of the coin. What about all the healthcare we are paying for when these hedonistic gluttons stuff
their faces, smoke and drink. Tax away on tobacco, I think its great. I used to be addicted to the stuff and put thousands of dollars into big
tobacco because I WAS PHYSICALLY ADDICTED to their product. Talk about unfair.

So, I'm supposed to be enticed by this to buy diet drinks with artificial sweeteners that taste like crap and probably have side effects that we
aren't yet aware of?

F* that.

Tobacco and alcohol? MAYBE. I don't use either, but I respect that some people do. Smoking is an extraneous habit that does cause problems for the
user and those around them with no benefit. It could be argued that alcohol is similar in that respect if you take into account alcohol related
violence/accidents. But what is an unhealthy diet doing to anyone except the person that eats/drinks the food? Indirectly maybe it's affecting
others by putting undue strain on the insurance companies, medical establishment, etc. but not everyone that buys a soda is an obese slob.

I think the citizens should be able to tax the government. Want me to work and be a productive member of society? I'm going to charge my employer a
"get off my ass" tax that they can pass off to the government as a "hey, we created some jobs" tax. Then we can also tax the government for
allowing them the right to tax us. I tangented there. sorry.

Anyway, I probably need to get this checked out by a doc, but if I don't keep some real sugar in me I get a little belligerent. Like it or not, the
body does need some form of sugar to survive - do artificial sweeteners take care of this? All I know is when my blood sugar gets low, shotgunning a
soda holds me off pretty well until I can get some food cooked.

If they really wanted to tax sex as a poster was talking about all they need to do is tax and type of birth control and they pretty much have you
unless your planning on having kids. Then they could take it one step further and give tax breaks if a person buys an inflatable doll because it's
obvious then chances are they are not going to be with another person to transmit something too them (with exceptions of course).

That being said for years now I've been wondering about all this taxation we get and what the founders of the US would have done about it in their
day.

Since gasoline is about 87% carbon and 13% hydrogen by weight, the carbon in a gallon of gasoline weighs 5.5 pounds (6.3 lbs. x .87). We can then
multiply the weight of the carbon (5.5 pounds) by 3.7, which equals 20 pounds of CO2!

Thats one gallon of gas your car burn's.

Now i am no scientist here...
But the amount 1 smoke lit next to you..would Be so small.untraceable.
Compared to the 20 pounds of carbon monoxide your car put's out for 1 gallon of gas.

So how can every one still say 2nd hand smoking is what caused your lung cancer.
Odd's are more in favor your car my car ect.. is causing it not some poor fool walking down the street smoking a cigarette .

I bet you anything that smoke that guy beside you is smoking.
Is less deadly to you than the car you drove there in.

It's like a car thief getting mad his car got stole.
People driving car's are worse on mankind than a smoker ever will be.

And it still cost's you less for a gallon of gas than a pack of smoke.
Because smoking is evil.
[edit on 11-3-2009 by TheAmused]

I am so P@@@d about this tax I can't see straight. As if I don't have enough stress trying to pay my bills, now I can't even smoke to relieve the
stress. I made a vow that ANY politician I meet, I'm going to punch him in the face and claim it was tobacco withdrawal stress

Hehehe sex tax. who do these morons think they are. I myself am pro smoking. These taxes are just another way for the government to screw us and make
a little money on the side. Wouldn't surprise me if one day they did find a way to tax people for having sex. I'm not just talking hooker prices
either.

Are you seriously getting mad about taxing cigarrettes and diet soft drinks?

The beauty of these things are is: they are completely optional.

I don't know anyone whose life will truley suffer as a result of not having cigarrettes or diet coke.

Though I do resent a tax on diet soft drinks being called the obesity tax because people drink it for different reasons. Seems silly. If anything, the
non diet soft drinks should be called the obesity tax.

Speaking of taxes, Lets do away with all the wasteful spending with congress critters.

How about all the food congress waste on a daily basis.

How about charging Lobbyist to pay a tax every time they visit the congress, that will pay for the wasted taxpayers money,

With Pelosi demanding her Luxury USAF jets, let do away with them to, congress can take a flight just like the rest of us.

These people in congress can and will do anything they please regardless of what the people says. Its un-telling what other taxes and harm they have
passed that the people have not found out about yet.

Here is another one they just passed, 'automatic pay raise each year for congress'.

Funding for 'Swine Oder Research', How about 'Congress Oder Research'. One could probably slip this in, and congress will pass it. They never read
these bills anyway.

Everyone Remember NAFTA or GATT (forgot which one), One guy out of all of congress read the bill, Sen Brown I believe read it all.

It never will stop because Congress is a bunch of hogs at the trough and the American Taxpayer keeps filling the trough. They don't give a D@@n
about you, or your wants and needs. They only care about their lobbyists filling their pockets and whats in it for them.

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